Disable messenger?

[Marvin66]

I´m at it again. =)

Is there a way to disable or remove windows "bloat ware" messenger in XP Pro? I´ve disabled so that it do not start at win startup and so on, but it still starts when you start Outlook Express. Can you disable that in any way?

Regards....

[myanimator]

ditto - this is damn annoying and i have been trying to figure out how to kill it too!

[drpiano]

In Outlook Express, go to Tools, then to options. In the General tab uncheck "Automaticly log on to Windows Messenger.

Best of luck!!!

drpiano

[Marvin66]

Hmmm...... doesn´t seem to work for me. You don´t have to reboot for it to take effect do you? =)<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Marvin66 on 10/02/01 05:12.</FONT></P>

[Acidfever]

Start-&gt;Run-&gt;"gpedit.msc""
-Computer Configuration
-Administrative Templates
-Windows Components
-Windows Messenger
Here you can enable
"Do not allow Windows Messenger to be run"
and
"Do not automatically start Windows Messenger initially"



Hope that helps!

A.

[Marvin66]

Tanx, that worked great. Well, except for the paus lasting 6,4 years before Express opens. =)

If you want to uninstall you can do like this:

open WINNT/inf/sysoc.inf

edit the entry:
msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7

by removing the hide command, ie like this

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,7

then messenger will be shown in add/remove programs under the windows components tab

[RWSchlatter]

define following policy (for Windows XP Home/Pro only):

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Group Policy Objects\LocalMachine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\M essenger\Client
Valuename: PreventRun
Data: DWORD 0/1 (as normal for policies)

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Regards - Richard